Material Handling Equipment Maintenance Services Market Procurement Intelligence Report

The market for Operation of Industrial Facilities and its sub-segments such as Material Handling Equipment Maintenance Services are at an interesting intersection. A balanced approach to procurement of Material Handling Equipment Maintenance Services has emerged, where buyers with multiple locations first outsource at individual locations and gradually move to standardize and consolidate the services across facilities.

Suppliers have historically gained handsome margin-on-margin by sub-contracting a part of their work to another contractor. However, Buyers are now delving deep into the business models of suppliers and negotiating hard to avoid further sub-contracting. In cases where it is imperative to sub-contract, category managers are employing should-cost models to keep supplier margins on sub-contracting to the minimal.

Many companies are looking to engage Material Handling Equipment Maintenance Services supplies in a long-term partnership to derive the highest ROI possible and creating an environment of trust and collaboration that allows for new optimization strategies.

Trends like these and many others discussed in this report are necessitating a relook at the way Material Handling Equipment Maintenance Services is procured and the procurement cost saving opportunities that exist.

Material Handling Equipment Maintenance Services procurement best practices are moving towards a level of sophistication which is typically seen in traditional procurement categories. Category managers now have an attractive opportunity to adapt the best practices seen within this category as well as those being leveraged in other non-related categories. This report summarizes the best practices picked from across multiple categories that could work well for category managers involved with Material Handling Equipment Maintenance Services procurement strategy.

For example, Buyers require industry-specific services to effectively operate their production facilities. Thus, they should opt for service providers that can offer customization and bring in years of experience in serving the needs of that industry.

Buyers should set a baseline against which the performance of suppliers can be benchmarked along with setting measurable/quantifiable KPIs. Defined KPIs provides suppliers with clarity on the scope. Besides setting standards for operations, pricing, and performance, KPIs must provide tangible goals in terms of the quality of solutions.

Buyers should evaluate the true costs of each product and service within the scope of work for supplier, and also understand the hidden costs associated. This can help them to set accurate targets for cost reduction for their suppliers, and effectively monitor and evaluate their performance against industry benchmarks.

Material Handling Equipment Maintenance Services procurement managers also need to proactively identify and mitigate potential risks that can arise in the supply chain or contracts for Material Handling Equipment Maintenance Services procurement. Some examples include: